California Preschool Learning Foundations - ECEZero2Three ...

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
136 | Writing
1.0 Children use writing to communicate their ideas.
Focus: Writing their name
Beginning Middle Later
1.3 Write marks to represent
their own name
in a way that may
resemble how it is
written in the home
language.
1.3 Attempt to copy their
own name in English
or in the writing
system of their
home language.
Examples Examples Examples
• Uses circles, lines, graphics,
or figures that resemble the
writing system for her home
language to represent her own
name and communicates in
the home language, “That’s
my name!”
• “Writes” his name on a card he
has made for his parent and
communicates his name in the
home language.
• Makes marks in the sand and
communicates in her home
language, “Teacher, this my
name.”
• Copies her name in English
from her name card with some
errors, using a whiteboard
and markers.
• From a card with his name
written in Korean by his
mother, copies his name in
Korean at the bottom of a
picture he wants to send to
his grandma, who does not
speak English.
• Writes an approximation of
her name in Vietnamese on
the sign-in sheet when arriving
at school and communicates,
“I’m here!”
1.3 Write their first name
on their own in English
nearly correctly,
using letters of the
English alphabet to
accurately represent
pronunciation in their
home language.
• Writes his name in English on
a painting, with some errors.
• While outside, writes his name
in English and then in Japanese
next to a self-portrait,
with some errors, using
sidewalk chalk.
• Traces her name in English
while drawing with crayons,
then writes her name on
her own.
Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume 1 • California Department of Education